I am considering one of these options at the moment. This came about from 3 reasons – my main PC at home crashed – did the lovely blue screen on me and I had to rebuild it and before I could do this – I…
Free AVG Anti-Virus
A great free anti-virus program I use is AVG by Grisoft. You can download it at free.grisoft.com. I have never had any problems with it and it has saved me from a few viruses. It will automatically update if you tell it to.
VPN in Win2K
The option to use VPN in Win2k was greyed out and as this was wanted I wanted to use I did some searching and found that you have to have Telephony and Remote Access Connection Manager turned on in Administrative Tools > Services (or Start,…
Speed up Windows XP by Removing Useless Windows Services
If you ever take a look at your task manager in Windows you will notice that there are a lot of different programs and services running in the background, using up system resources and slowing down your computer. Following the tips on the following link…
Setting up a Free Linux Firewall
At our office we actually run a few separate networks to make sure that our main servers have the best protection available. For two of our three networks we run a free firewall based on Linux. Our favorite product for our free firewall is IPCop,…
150 Free Microsoft Windows XP Products
While running Windows XP it is easy to think that we are missing out on a lot of cool, free open-source software and applications. After all, not all open-source applications are available for a Windows PC. Microsoft however has provided us with over 150 free…